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Frayed Knot Sep 26 2008 07:39 AM

1 division race was decided yesterday (NL West) while one other clinching was denied for at least another day (AL East). Plus 3 other games were played last night involving 4 possible playoff teams and affecting one other, all of which ended with walk-off hits! -- one with a Grand-Slam and two in extra innings. So what did 'SportsCenter' lead with this morning? ... College football. A full 10 mintues worth at the top of the show. Not coincidently it was on a game which they just happened to televise last night.

metirish Sep 26 2008 07:42 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 26 2008 08:40 AM

Only time I watch ESPN these days is if they are showing the Mets on Sunday Night. I have long found it frustrating waiting around for updates or highlights of games that interest me. But yeah baseball this last week has been fun and torture on alternating nights.

Frayed Knot Sep 26 2008 08:29 AM

I only put it on this morning because I wanted to see highlights of the Twins/ChiSox game because there was no SportsCenter on ESPN last night on account of them showing college football. I just wasn't prepared to have to wait nearly 15 minutes to see them. That they led with highlights plus analysis of the game they showed from the previous night didn't surprise me. That they spent as much time on that one game as they did on the three walk-off baseball games combined just shows where their priorities are. It certainly helps that they own the film to the game but, in effect, they're using the game from the previous day as much to promote the entire slate of games they (and their parent ABC) will be showing all day tomorrow as anything.

AG/DC Sep 26 2008 08:39 AM

The crazy stuff is when they cut from the studio to a mobile set on the college of BigShot State, "WHERE THE EXCITEMENT IS PALPABLE IN ANTICIPATION OF SATURDAY'S KICKOFF, BRIAN!" It's Thusday morning at 8:00 AM and students are behind the set waving like morons. I guess the segment was shot before a day or two before but I don't know because I tune out as some dodo in a yellow jacket declares that he likes Boise St. "BECAUSE THEY HAVE 750 POUNDS OF LINEMAN ON THE LEFT SIDE! ADD THE CENTER AND THAT'S OVER A THOUSAND POUNDS FOR THE YELLOW BUCKETS TO RUN BEHIND!!" Baseball, gentlemen, please!

OlerudOwned Sep 26 2008 01:31 PM

="AG/DC"]The crazy stuff is when they cut from the studio to a mobile set on the college of BigShot State, "WHERE THE EXCITEMENT IS PALPABLE IN ANTICIPATION OF SATURDAY'S KICKOFF, BRIAN!" It's Thusday morning at 8:00 AM and students are behind the set waving like morons. I guess the segment was shot before a day or two before but I don't know because I tune out as some dodo in a yellow jacket declares that he likes Boise St. "BECAUSE THEY HAVE 750 POUNDS OF LINEMAN ON THE LEFT SIDE! ADD THE CENTER AND THAT'S OVER A THOUSAND POUNDS FOR THE YELLOW BUCKETS TO RUN BEHIND!!" Baseball, gentlemen, please! Hey, this week that's my BigShot State. Go BigShots!

OlerudOwned Sep 26 2008 01:39 PM

For what it's worth though, even with that game Saturday night being #2 vs. #8, big time SEC meltdown whatever, I honestly couldn't care less. Georgia football is something I've just sort walked into. But I practically learned to read off the backs of baseball cards. I'm going to wind up in my door, trying to stream the Mets game on my laptop, and if by chance the Mets win and the Bulldogs lose I'll probably be one of the only people in this town with a grin on their face.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 26 2008 01:40 PM

Remember the game last year where, on the last day of the season, the Mets and Phillies both had a shot at the division title. (That's the game, I believe, where Tom Glavine fared rather poorly.) I live and work in the Philadelphia suburbs. I went to work the next day and what was everyone talking about? The Eagles! I was gritting my teeth at my desk. This city ends up with a playoff baseball team? Sheesh.

Frayed Knot Sep 26 2008 02:18 PM

]The crazy stuff is when they cut from the studio to a mobile set on the college of BigShot State, "WHERE THE EXCITEMENT IS PALPABLE IN ANTICIPATION OF SATURDAY'S KICKOFF, BRIAN!" The mobile unit isn't just a one-shot deal, they do a whole 2-hour pre-game show from the site of a different game each week plus day-long updates, hilights, halftimes, etc. The crew there always make it a point to celebrate the "campus spirit" in an attempt to insert themselves into an insider status which has nothing to do with them. They are, in turn, treated like visiting rock stars from the camera-hungry students and other hangers-on. Hey, it's worked for Dick Vitale for years. College sports are terrific. I just wish they remained on the college campuses.

Frayed Knot Sep 26 2008 02:27 PM

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Remember the game last year where, on the last day of the season, the Mets and Phillies both had a shot at the division title. (That's the game, I believe, where Tom Glavine fared rather poorly.) I live and work in the Philadelphia suburbs. I went to work the next day and what was everyone talking about? The Eagles! I was gritting my teeth at my desk. This city ends up with a playoff baseball team? Sheesh. There was a situation a couple years ago where the Phils won several real exciting mid-Sept games to put themselves into the thick of a pennant race. So I'm listening to MadDog Russo solo on WFAN on a Saturday morning after one of these Phils victories and he lead off talking about the various pennant races around MLB including spending several minutes on the recent Phils series. He was then flooded with calls from Philly/south Jersey area Phils fans wanting to talk Phils baseball - most of them explaining how their sports station (WIP I assume) refused to take their calls because, seeing as how it was Saturday and therefore only a day before the next Eagles game, they were only taking football calls. I think it was week 2 in the NFL.

cooby Sep 26 2008 04:33 PM

USC got beat; that's kinda big news, boys